Chapter 53   Community Ecology p. 1174

What is a community p. 1174

·        Community

·        Species richness

·        Relative abundance  (Also, read p. 1191-1192 and Figure 53.21)

·        Species diversity

Interspecific interactions and community structure p. 1176

·        Coevolution

·        Interspecific competition

·        Ecological niche

§         Fundamental niche

§         Realized niche

·        Table 53.1 p. 1176

Predation p. 1178

·        Predation

·        Predator

·        Herbivory

·        Prey

·        Parasitism

·        Predator Adaptations

·        Plant defenses

·        Animal defenses against predators

§         Monarch and Viceroy butterflies

§         Mimicry

§         Camouflage 

§         Figures 53.5, 53.6 and 53.7 p. 1179

parasitism p. 1180

·        Know at least one example

·        parasite

·        host

·        endoparasitic-

·        ectoparasitic-

·        parasitoidism-

mutualism p. 1180

·        Symbiosis

·        Symbiont

·        know at least one example

 

Commensalism p. 1181

·        know at least one example

 

Coevolution p. 1181

·        define and know at least one example

 

Trophic structure is a key factor in community dynamics p. 1181

·        trophic structure

·        food chain

·        food levels

·        food webs

·        Figure 53.10 p. 1181

·        Figure 53.11 p. 1182

·        Biomass (define) p. 1183

·        Keystone species  p. 1184

 

The structure of a community may be controlled bottom-up by nutrients or top-down by predators p. 1185

·        bottom-up model

·        top-down model

Ecological Succession is the sequence of community changes after a disturbance p. 1189

·        Ecological succession

·        Climax community

·        Primary succession

·        Secondary succession